Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Gretel, sentence 19
When the two wings were eaten, she went and looked for her master, and did not see him.
Who acts: other · What happens: eat, go, look, not see · To what, where: two wings, master
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Gretel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 eaten | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wings | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 wings | nummod |
| 4 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 eaten | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 eaten | aux:pass |
| 6 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 went | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 eaten | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 looked | cc |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 master | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 master | nmod:poss |
| 14 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looked | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 see | cc |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 see | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 see | advmod |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 went | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 see | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · passive | the two wings | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | go | past | other | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | look | past | other not said here | for other's master | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for master=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not see | past · do-support | other not said here | master | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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